The works of Mensur Mera Gjonbalaj

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There’s something viewers should know about me. I’m absolutely obsessed with Persian culture and literature. Persian poetry helped inspire me to start be poetic about my own life and the things I experience on a day to day basis. Two years back I started teaching myself Farsi. Though I have yet to compose anything in Farsi I tried writing a poem inspired by the style of that in Iran. Be somewhat of a romantic I came up with My Fustan. Fustan is a word that comes from Arabic and means “gown” or “dress.”

There was a Syrian Jewish girl who I was seeing at the time and whenever I’d go to her place she’d be wearing beautiful traditional garb, and I would find it sexy and appealing. I wrote a poem for her around the time of Valentine’s Day.